A student applied for a grant to study the effects of 11-Nor-delta 9-Tetrahydrocannabinol-9-Carboxylic Acid on avians of the genus _Sterna_.
He wrote a great grant proposal and followed up with two years of assiduous solid research finishing with a whizbang dissertation that covered everything from biochemistry to genetic effects to structural changes to particular ethological effects. It was 1243 pages of clear and literate writing. We didn't give him the Ph.D., though, because he left out the control group, or, as the committee explained� (scroll down) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . He had forgotten to leave a tern unstoned.
